by LIS101 | Nov 5, 2016 | Articles |
Fact-checkers and students approach websites differently By Sam Wineburg and Sarah McGrew November 1, 2016 Did Donald Trump support the Iraq War? Hillary Clinton says yes. He says no. Who’s right? In search of answers, many of us ask our kids to...
by LIS101 | Aug 27, 2016 | Assignments |
Assignment designed with help from Professor Shana Cooper of Harold Washington College Read and Think Research a controversial topic about which you are passionate and find two sources that present different messages about it. For instance, you might look at how...
by LIS101 | Jul 5, 2016 | Readings, Uncategorized |
A Facebook newsfeed can be a dangerous place to get your information. Note for instance the coverage of the FBI probe regarding Hillary Clinton’s email use as Secretary of State. In a single newsfeed I captured three articles, two of which say she will be indicted...
by LIS101 | Jun 18, 2016 | Assignments, Webpages |
The instruction librarians at John M. Pfau Library have listed useful information literacy assignments according to their library instruction outcomes. I especially like the assignments for Effective Searching, which offers a collaborative approach to keyword...
by LIS101 | Jun 17, 2016 | Readings, Research Skills |
An information artifact is anything through which people communicate, such as a text, an image, a piece of graphic design, or a video. By asking critical questions as you engage it, you can develop a deeper understanding of an artifact’s context, aim, and meaning. To...
by LIS101 | Jun 9, 2016 | Readings, Uncategorized |
In a perfect world, facts and information would be presented objectively so that people could make rational, educated decisions. Unfortunately, information is rarely bestowed in such a pristine manner. Instead, it is often presented in the form of argumentation, in...
by LIS101 | Jun 9, 2016 | Readings, Webpages |
Dr Biljana Scott’s article on framing an argument introduces the linguistic and rhetoric aspects of persuasion. The way in which we frame an issue largely determines how that issue will be understood and acted upon. By dissecting Obama’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech...
by LIS101 | May 29, 2016 | Research Skills |
Malpractice is defined as improper, illegal, or negligent activity. In the realm of research, here are some examples of information malpractice: Plagiarism It should go without saying that copying work that is not your own and/or using sources without...
by LIS101 | May 29, 2016 | Articles |
Todd J. Wiebe writes: “Now he would prowl the stacks of the library at night, pulling books out of a thousand shelves and reading in them like a madman. The thought of these vast stacks of books would drive him mad: the more he read, the less he seemed to know—the...
by LIS101 | May 26, 2016 | Readings |
In the public sphere there have long raged battles between capital and labor, business and government, industrial interests and humanist concerns, and no doubt many others. Attempts to exert control over the messages in the public sphere are undertaken to...
by LIS101 | May 16, 2016 | Research Skills |
Malpractice is defined as improper, illegal, or negligent activity. In the realm of research, here are some examples of information malpractice: Plagiarism It should go without saying that copying work that is not your own and/or using sources without attribution will...
by LIS101 | May 15, 2016 | Assignments |
Introduction You are part of a team of four partners that has been tasked by the Chicago Chamber of Commerce (CCC) to give a presentation to a panel of business owners and community stakeholders about whether or not Chicago should continue to embrace the trend of...
by LIS101 | May 13, 2016 | Blogs |
From vaccinations to climate change, getting science wrong has very real consequences. But journal articles, a primary way science is communicated in academia, are a different format to newspaper articles or blogs and require a level of skill and undoubtedly a...
by LIS101 | Feb 10, 2016 |
Objectives and Outcomes Objectives and Outcomes This section contains all of the readings, walk-throughs, and tutorials you will need to complete a research paper or related project. After completing the steps in this tutorial, you will be able to: recognize when you...
by LIS101 | Feb 10, 2016 |
Module 3: Politics and the Legal Landscape of Information in the United States Introduction In the early United States partisan newspaper presses and their owners were drivers of the political debate. As the two major American political parties established themselves,...
by LIS101 | Jan 19, 2016 |
Module 4: The Production of Information Introduction The complex information ecosystem–in which public and private sources battle for control of policy, in which marketers and publishers compete for the public’s attention, in which popular press...
by LIS101 | Jan 18, 2016 |
Module 2: The Consumption of Information Introduction No doubt most people are familiar with the friend who, no matter how much evidence is presented, will find a way to argue against it. If the debate were a football field, it would have the curious feature of moving...